.._0 THE\A rOItKtlE1i - ... . - ,.. .. ;;. 'V :: "' = '/íl ,,\' II ... II /" /' -- to :: If':: rm /1'\\ \ . . \ " . . "" o 0 0 ".",. THE TALK OF THE TOWN 1\7otes and Comment T HE Bowery Savings Bank has set -' ....... its cap for us, and its antics to at- tract our attention are 1110St a111US- ing. The latest flirtatious gesture is a color folder showing photographs of typical depositors, a1110ng the111 Fred Allen, Lowell Tho111as, Kate S111ith, Russel Crouse, and Dale Carnegie, each one a living exa111ple of thrift, or the spirit of two per cent. It wasn't so long ago that a man had to be dressed in over- - aIls to get his picture in a savings-bank folder exemplifying thrift. He had to be clutching a solitary buck, which he had wheedled fro 111 hIs budget by going without butter for a week. Happily, those plodding days are gone. Depositor Allen, Depositor Thomas, :Madam De- positor Stnith-these are a s111iling, tweed-blown, butter-enriched crew. Offhand, we would guess that a suc- cessful plaY 7right or radio star turns to the Bowery Savings Bank not in thrift but in desperation- ln) port in a storm, even if it's one of those 111iserly two-per- cent palaces whose assets are so liquid you can drink the111. P AN AMERICAN \\'ORLD AIR\VAYS SYSTEM, the Curtiss- "\' right Cor- poration, and the United Aircraft Cor- poration are in receipt of identical let- ters fro111 a 111an in Prague, who, after identifying hi111self as a for111er book- 111aker with a betting busIness of more than a 111illion dollars per annUln, ob- serves, "1\ ow is here all nationalized, therefore, I will go to USA," and con- tinues, in part: ] anl seeking for three founder-members for the foundation of a regular Flying- race Club ,,-ith dayly or weekly flying- race programIne and with betting business, so as the business by the J ockev Racing Club. Have you, please, an interest for this founda tion The other members and o\vners of fly- ing machines vvould be: all manufacturers. air transportation firms, private persons and military. rrhe investment and the direction of business are so as by the horse-race. The flying-race ,vill be more popular as the horse-race. r have a Patent race-ground special for regular short distance fIying-race, whereby the public can see very good the flying- race. Under the heading "The Regular Fly- . R . hB ." h Ing- ace WIt ettIng, t e wnter sug- L- gests a nUll1ber of annual features, such as the N ew York Town Stakes, the ..A.utlu11n Handicap, and the Flying- Race "with hindrance (air tU111bles)." 'Ve don't know how Curtiss- 'IV right and United Aircraft reacted to this communication, hut we do know that a Pan A111erican officer replied regret- ting "that we 111USt forgo this oppor- tunity, since it is not in an} way con- nected with our line of business." \Ve, in turn, regret those regrets. Where would this country be if pioneer busi- nesses and business111en had refused to branch out? The Bank of the Man- hattan C0111pan) started as a water- supply and well-digging outfit. The founders of Morgan's and Kuhn, Loeb switched fro111 the dry-goods business. The Lewisohns dropped feathers and horsehair for copper, and later devel- oped into fertilizer the sulphur-dioxide fU111es that rose fro111 the stacks of their s111elters. Moreover, we think the flying-race, especially the one with air tU111bles, 111ight da111n well be 1110re popular than the horse-race. G.M.'s Party " T HIS Preview will provide an oc- caSIon for sotne of our General I\1otors people to 111eet with business leaders and other friends," President C. E. Wilson wrote us, bidding us to the Mid-Century Motora111a, at the Waldorf. \Ve showed up joyfully, trying to look like a business leader. .l\.s an old hand at the annual G.M. show, we found conditions i111proved In one or two respects. Last year, guests coagulated as girls with baskets of flower<; handed houtonnieres out in a s0111ewhat helter-skelter fashion; this year, eight girls stood on eight successive steps of the stairway leading fro111 the coatroom to the Grand Ballroo111 and pa,Ssed out red carnations and white gar- denias on an assembly-line basis. And guests were not announced by name this year; the three thousand people who shook hands with I\1r. \Vilson and his three executive vice-presidents did so anonY111ously. \,Ve watched these four durable 111en for a while; each ti111e, they seized the tips of four fingers, smiled, and 111urmured a greeting. '-' rrheir right artns worked with the uni- '-' son of the parts of a G .M. engine. \Ve passed a rotating Chevrolet chassis, five or six non-rotating Chevrolets, a dozen rotating sales111en wearing breathtaking '-' ties, and a display of Finger Tip Con- trol-"Pressa Button and the \Vindows are Raised and Lowered 'CTO LA.TI- CALLy"-and emerged into the ball- r00111, whose stage was the scene of a dance revue entitled "Motors and I\1el- odies." "Fifty years of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness on wheels," a narrator intoned, and a Gibson girl led a dancing horse (co111posed of two 111en) onto the stage before a backdrop depict- ing a blackstnith's shop. .L<\ 111an in a duster, carrying a cardboard cutout rep- resenting an auto1110bile, entered. The horse retired to a cornel and sulked as